The first patient to get a cybernetic implant from Elon Musk's Neuralink company appeared to move a cursor using his brain to play online chess in a video released by the company, write UsaToday

In a livestream X, formerly Twitter on Wednesday, Noland Arbaugh moves the cursor on a computer without using any physical tools. Arbaugh, 29, said he used his mind to play the online chess game.

"It was like using the force," Arbaugh said.

Arbaugh has been paralyzed from the shoulders down after a "freak" diving accident eight years ago, he said in the live stream. 

In the video, Arbaugh said he loved playing chess but it hasn't been something he was able to do often in the past few years.

"Now it's all being done with my brain. You can see the cursor moving around the screen, that's all me," he explained. 

Arbaugh, an Arizona native, was a student and athlete at Texas A&M when he became paralyzed, according to a GoFundMe that was set up in 2017 to help him get a handicapped access van.

According to the fundraiser, Arbaugh was working as a summer camp counselor for children when he got into the accident that left him quadriplegic in 2016.

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